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Colder Than Mars

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we go to malls when it snows and we don’t buy a thing
and hold keys to cars we don’t own on our rings
and when we lie down, I can feel the oxytocin flow
like the Missippi...runs in the spring
if we’d stuck to applied sciences,
we might have ended up with better appliances
but anthills pop up through the carpet, yeah
our apartment’s kind of an armpit, yeah
no pork at our parties, chicken is safest,
and in mini-apple, sambusas are the greatest
orange fanta, sans-ice, goat, basta, injeera, rice

I haven’t mastered that Minnesota accent
cuz nearly no one in my neighborhood has it
its the new minnesota and that’s just fine,
that’s the minnesota that I have on my mind

we shop at the co-op, pick up supplements at the foodshelf
we buy what we can from the farmers,
and then get what we can where we can wherever else.
pita or pancake ? why is everyone snacking on my sidewalk?
spiced with ginger and mandrake!
I’m not gonna pick it up, and ingest it quick
we drink what it see, drain it down, even up to the dregs
let it sit deep within us, like fruit juices in giraffe’s legs

what if to submerge is like the Abyss? I mean the film from 1989
that I watched in 7th grade, with horror, as that rat’s eyes met mine
he shrieked and tried not to drown,
but he couldn’t resist, such a struggle in the brine
his lungs filled with water and he survived with clenched fists

its colder than mars here, and we import snow by the pounds
and doors are locked and closed,
from the first snow til the thaw of the ground
we’re all gonna die of loneliness, cozy with just ourselves,
only ourselves and a bottle of vodka taken down off the shelf
across the hall, paper thin walls, our salvation is bound up together
it’s not what we saw, but we heard the falls,
as we waited day and night through the weather
and if the sun ever comes out to greet us, we’ll beat it with a brick
and threaten, if you ever try to defect again, it’s over
we’ll finish the job, and this time we mean it.

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from Colder Than Mars, released March 29, 2016

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